Photograph depicts the stern of a weather ship with a large body of water in the background.
Photograph depicts mist from a wave rising above the stern of a weather ship.
Photograph depicts a weather ship sailing into a wave in stormy weather.
Photograph depicts water from a wave spilling over the bow of a weather ship.
Photograph depicts water pooled on the deck of a weather ship with rough water in the background.
Photograph depicts a large wave breaking over the bow end of a weather ship.
Photograph depicts the wake from a weather ship in a large body of water.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man preparing a large weather balloon for flight aboard a weather ship.
Photograph depicts a weather balloon ascending into the air with a clear sky in the background.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man putting a weather balloon into flight aboard a weather ship.
Photograph depicts a weather balloon flying into the air with a clear sky in the background.
Photograph depicts a close perspective of a weather balloon at cloud level.
Photograph depicts a weather balloon in the air with a clear sky in the background.
Photograph depicts three men with fishing gear. Trees and mountains in background. Left to right: Plato Malezemoff (holding fish), Jack Christian, Tam Zimmermann.
Series consists of 39 Kodachrome colour slides ca. 1960s taken from ships of ocean scenes and weather balloon launches from unidentified locations, possibly North Coast but also includes images of an unidentified tropical location.
Photograph depicts a large white dome structure aboard a weather ship.
Photograph depicts the bow of a weather ship swamped with water after waves broke over the side of the ship.
Photograph depicts a weather ship sailing over rough waves.
Photograph depicts a partially obscured image of a wave breaking over a weather ship.
Photograph depicts rough water breaking over the bow of a weather ship.
Photograph depicts a wave breaking over the bow of a weather ship.
Photograph depicts a rainbow over a large body of water.
Photograph depicts a weather balloon as its rising into the air.
Photograph depicts a weather balloon rising with clouds in the background.
Photograph depicts a sunset over water with a beach in the foreground.
Photograph depicts a sunset over a large body of water with a beach in the foreground.
Series consists of photographs created or accumulated by the Aleza Lake Research Forest Society.
Photograph depicts two men on the deck of a weather ship.
Photograph depicts a weather ship sailing in rough weather with waves spilling over the side of the ship.
Photograph depicts a wave breaking over the stern of a weather ship in stormy weather.
Photograph depicts the bow end of a ship getting swamped by a wave in rough water.
Photograph depicts a weather ship in rough water with water spilling onto the bow end of the ship.
Photograph depicts a close perspective of a weather balloon with a clear sky in the background.
File contains a photocopied version of "Tree Farm Licence No. 29 - Eagle Lake Sawmills Ltd. Cutting Permit Application No. 7". Although this item is not related to the Aleza Lake Research Forest, it is relevant to forest history in the Prince George area and therefore retained by the Society.
Photographs are panoramas taken from the Churchill BC Forest Service Lookout, located at latitude 54°04' and longitude 122°16'. The photographs were bound together and include a transparent grid that was intended to be used for locating forest fires.
Photograph depicts two unidentified men walking across a large log over water at Knight's Inlet. Handwritten annotations on verso read: “W.C. Baker, Chaplain”; “Knights Inlet, 23 April 1960"
Photograph depicts benches of Cassiar's open mine. Men can be seen standing near machinery speculated to be blasthole drills in bottom left of image. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Waste Stripping Operations on McDame Mt. Ore Mining in lower right Corner.", on verso: "1961".
Photograph depicts ore haul truck at dump in mine, mountain range in background. Photo also features driver and a second unidentified man standing in front of truck. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Int. Harvester Payhauler Model 95 dumping stripping waste at 6565 Elevation", on verso: "1961".
Footage of horses in corral.
Location is believed to be Holt Homestead or Lassard Lake.
Footage of large animal, most likely a moose, along a steep bank. Two men and their pack horse traveling along an open landscape, a close shot of their campfire at night, then footage of them preparing for a journey early in the morning. Also a view of a herd of caribou, the men traveling in a pack train over a stream and through upper valleys of the mountains, various sunset shots, a lake full of birds feeding, and finally the men packing the horses with killed game meat, most likely caribou.
The location of the filming is most likely the Rainbow Mountains.
Footage includes salmon jumping in a river, men filleting fish in fishing boat in tide water, a beaver in the water, and a bird, probably a heron, flying.
Recordings from the boat on a river, some loons on a lake, either Anahim or Fenton lake, and a panoramic view of the lake with mountains in background.
Also some footage of men fishing from the shore of a river, children catching fish, children swimming, some river rapids, footage of an eagle, a pelican on the lake, a group of birds, probably sand pipers, in water.
There are two young girls playing on a boat near shore, a view of white and brown house, and an older boy pulling a young girl in a wagon.
Include is footage of a backyard BBQ picnic, two young girls fishing, a cabin at a lake, and general scenery of birch trees, a boat house, and a dock at lake.
There is also a sign that reads "Breezy Cove," people relaxing on porch in front of cabin, and footage of a woman believed to be Mrs. Elsey and a friend walking on a forest path.
The film ends with footage of more fishing off a motor boat and unloading the motor boat at a dock.
Possible locations of the filming include the Bella Coola River, the Bella Coola Valley, the Bulkley Valley, the Hagensborg area, and Nimpo Lake.
Photograph depicts ore haul truck at dump in mine, driver visible, mountain range in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Kenworth - Model 802 dumping stripping waste at 6565 Elevation", on verso: "1961".
Item is a photograph of from left, Ralph Robbins and Jack Paine of the BC Forest Service, Ray Williston, Chief Forester for Canadian Forest Products Tom Wright, Deputy Minister of Forests Finley McKinnon, Canadian Forest Products Vice-President in Charge of Development John Liersch, and BC Chief Forester John Stokes investigating small wood in an area near Prince George.
Item is a photograph of Ray Williston and John Liersch in a small wood area southwest of Prince George.
Fred Anderson fly-fishing in river, probably the Atnarko River, catching and displaying salmon.
Footage of man fly fishing on river shore and catching steelhead salmon.
Possible locations of the film include the Bella Coola River or the Dean River.
Footage of thee men in dugout canoe bringing in ooligan nets full of ooligan fish on what is believed to be the Bella Coola river. Two of the men bring in the net while the third bails water. The men then bring in the canoe to shore using long poles. Women then join and help transport the fish to shore and then place the fish in large "stink box" where they are stirred with a stick.
Footage of fly fishing on a river, possibly the Bella Coola River or Dean River, fishing in river canyon, footage of deer, footage of Alert Bay, village, marina and totem poles on shore, footage of a white robin, and a woman holding her salmon catch. Also include is recordings of the Anahim stampede and the bucking bronco event.
Item is a photograph of Mr. Williston, Chief Forester John Stokes and Tom Wright of Canadian Forest Products examining an area near Prince George in order to determine the timber area required for a Pulp Harvesting License for a proposed pulp mill that would depend completely on waste wood.
Fonds consists of original, silent 16mm reels that portray the natural, social and land use history of the Bella Coola and Chilcotin regions named the "Natural and Guiding History of the Bella Coola and Chilcotin Regions".
Possible locations that Al Elsey filmed include: Bella Coola, Bella Bella, Anahim Lake, Alert Bay, Nimpo Lake, Bulkey Valley, the Rainbow Mountains, Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, Dean River, Bella Coola River, Tchaha Lake, the Chilcotin region, the Ulkatcho Mountains, Lassard Lake, Fenton Lake, Atnarko River, Wells Gray Park, and Holt Homestead.